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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
A COLD RUN.
A Saloonkeeper's Spree and Its Serious
ResnltR.


WATERBURY, Conn, Feb. 4-TOm Reston,
a saloonkeeper of this place, formerly lived
at Thomaston, ten miles from here, and,
with several choice spirits, he went over
there Wednesday and, after indulglng IN
much liquor, repaired to his old boarding
house. went directly to the room formerly
occupied by himself, and, taking off his
clothes, threw himself on the bed. Since
he had left there the widow had married
and her husband, coming home and finding
stranger in bed, routed him out of the
house and started him hatless and coatless
and without any extra clothing running to-
ward Waterbury over the icy road Reston
was too drunk to know enough to go into
some place, and ran all the way home,
which he reached about oneao'clock in the
morning, completely exhausted, almost
speechless and covered with blood. On the
way he was taken for lunatic and Per
sued, but managed to elude the citizens
who sought to capture him. Reston's head
bears cash two inches long and hls feet
are so badly frozen that probably his toes
will have to be amputated and possibly his
feet. Over the wound on his head IS
large lump and the wound is frost bitten.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
Insane Paupers.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 5.-Before the COM
mittee investigating the Summit County
infirmary at Akron yesterday, George
Keck, ex-superlntendent Of the in
sane department, testified that it
had been his duty to watch the in
sane people. When he was at work in
the fields they cared for themselves. He
gave the patients baths. II washed the
female as well as the male,n he said. An
insane woman kept the door between the
female and the male departments of the
crazy house. He told Of two insane girls
who had given birth to children in the in
stitution. He said he knew the male
paupers went intothe reons of'the females.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
A WESTERN sheriff has lately i

A WESTERN sheriff has lately invent
ed new hanging maceine. Instead
of a scafold with drop, by which the
victim is launched into eternity with
a broken neck, this new machine is a
long beam resting on fulcrum or
pivot. To one end of the beam the
convict is hitched by short rope. AT
the proper signal a weight is dropped
upon the opposite end of this beam,
and the victim neck breaks before his
feet leave the ground.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

In reporting favorably the bill to
pension Walt Whitman at the rate of
twenty-five dollars per month, the
House Committee on Invalid Pensions
says the poet dedicated himself during
the war to the unceasing care, as a
volunteer nurse, of sick and wounded
soldiers, and his almost devotional
ministrations were web known to the
citizens of Washington and of the
Nation
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

The British Government has settled
the Transatlantic mail contracts so that
the White Star steamers leaving Liver
pool on Wednesdays and the Cunard
steamers on Saturdays will take mails.
The vessels will call at Queenstown.
Mails will also be sent by the steam
ships of the Inman line, leaving Liver
pool on Tuesdays, and by the North
German Lloyd steamers, which leave
Southampton on Thursdays, if indorsed
to 90 by the vessels of the latter line.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

MARION COUNTY, Virginia, boasts OF
Mrs. Mary Crow, who asserts that she
is one hundred and eleven years old;
and she is renewing her youth, too, for
it is reported that her hair, for many
years as white as snow, is turning
black again.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

A BROOKLYN doctor has been i'm
PEELED, by the New York bill to abolish
hanging, to once more advocate the
yivisection of criminals condemned to
die. The !" life for life p" principal is
understood usually as meaning death
for DEATH" but the murderer-vivisec-
ton scheme supplies quite new read
ing. The argument is that man,
having taken life, shall be tortured
SO as to enable the medical profession
to save other lives. The logic is good,
and if anything should act as deter
rent to crimes of violence, it would be
the fear of dissection during life ny
doctors and medical students.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

DR.. HAMILTON, of New York, says
that grammar should be banished from
the schools until the senior year of a
University course. He claims that the
study is the most ingenious device ever
known for driving poor little brains
into premature decrepitude.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

BARON DE JOEsT of Paris, noted all
his life for his cruel treatment of all
men and animals he came in contact
with, has left his whole estate of half a
million dollars to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

THE ocean steamers are having a
holiday at this season, as the world
and his wife are "at home" for a
time. A man who crossed last week
in one of the crack Cunarders says he
ratified around in the saloon like dice
in box, the ship was so empty.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
THERE has been a series of dynami

THERE has been a series of dynamite
experiments at the Washington Navy
Yard, conducted with the greatest Sc
crecy for almost three months, which
bear significance. They are said to be
carried on by prominent Western scien-
fists, and to have been so successful
that the attention of Congress will be
called to them.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

j. W. BooKwALTER of Ohio, who has
just returned from Europe for the
twentieth time, says: From what l
could see l think the Germans would
whip the French again. France is full
of soldiers, but they all have boyish,
smallish look and make no great i'm
preston on strangers"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

THE bill introduced by Senator Beck
to amend the national banking laws is
substantially identical with the bill in
troduced in the House by Mr.. Miller. Of
Texas, during the present session,
framed on the recommendation of the
Comptroller of the Currency.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

Miss ADA LEIGH, the English philan-
thropist, who few years ago started a
home in London for young men, with
restaurant and reading-room attached,
is now in New York, bent on perform
ing some work of a similar nature
fharn
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

OUIDA is in London. Correspondents
describe her as an absurd, discontented
old woman, without human companion
ionship or sympathy, and deriving no
comfort from her literary fame.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

The medical colleges of the United
States have graduated over thirty-three
thousand physicians during the past
nine years, and the present rate is
about four thousand per annum.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

DR.. PETERS, an eminent Paris ply.
sician, repudiates and denounces M.
Pasteur's famous treatment for hydro
phobia.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

PRINCE LOUIS, the second son OF
Prince Napoleon, has taken service in
the Italian army, and thus forfeited his
French nationality.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

The late General Charles P. Stone
drove the first and last rivet In the
Statue of Liberty.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10
Che 8rookharsn 9sadsr.
ADVERTISEMENTS.

Marriave and de tn n tees, n I exceeding
six ines published free. All over six ! mes
will hc charged for at regular advertising
rates.
~ All advertisements due when inserted,
unless otherwise agreed upon
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

CHANG, the Chinese giant, has re-
turned to Shanghai, after making the
circuit of the globe.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

A BAND of Indian squaws who came
into Bangor, d. T., the other day, all
invested in corsets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

ious to winter wheat. Insects have COM
mitted greater depredations than usual.
The area of winter rye has been dimin-
ished over per cent. mainly by large
reduction in Kansas. Condition is
better than that of wheat, as usual, aver
aging 89.9.
An apparent enlargement of the barley
acreage of 3 per cent. is indicated. The
increase is in Dakota, California, Oregon
an the territories. Condition averages
81, being slightly above that of wheat.
There is a continuance of the extension
of oats culture. The increase is 4 per
cent. This crop has taken part of the
area formerly in wheat in Kansas, an ad-
vance of 20 per cent. over the acreage of
last year. The increase is large in the
northwest, and there is a tendency to en-
largeme2t in all sections of this coun-
try.
In the acreage of cotton an increase of
L per cent is reported. There appears to
be slight decline in the states of the
Atlantic coast and an increase west of the
Mississippi. The condition of cotton is
higher than in any June since 1880, aver
aging $50, and has only been exceeded
three times since 1870. The best yield in
that period, however, was in 1882, when
June condition was SO, figure that has
| beer discounted six times since 1870. II
is good beginning, but does not insure
good crop. Clean cultivation is report
ed as a rule, and healthy color and goo6
growth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
UNDER ETHER.
An Experience with the Anaesthetic for a
Surgical Operation

An Experience with the Anaesthetic for a
Surgical Operation
writer in the Pail Mail Gazette says:
Sunday at 1:30 was the hour fixed on for
the operation. It is curious sensation,
feeling perfectly we'll and sound in wind
and limb, to sit waiting for a man to
whom you are to surrender volition, con-
sciousness-in fact everything but life
ltseif-whlle he cuts and carves at you
with his knives and lancets.
Soon after the hour named two serious,
frock-coated gentlemen, with om;nous
little black bags in their hands, were an
nounced. The surgeon declared that the
operation must be performed in bed. So
we pulled the bedstead into the most con-
venient position for catching the lights
from the window, amd when he had re-
tired began to undress. No time was
lost; the surgeon and doctor came in, and
began to arrange their tackle for work.
The doctor got out his ether apparatus,
and soon compounded a smell like a
photographers shop in olden days, while
out of the corner of my eye I could see
the surgeon, who had taken off his coat
and pulled some guards over his wrists
and arms, arranging his weapons in a
neat row on the dressing table. When
the doctor had got his machine ready he
placed it over my nose and mouth, with
instructions to breathe deeply two or
three times. The apparatus used for
giving ether consists of a box in
which the compound is placed, and
an oval india-rubber mask, very
plant and flexible, projecting
from 1T, with tap which allows communi
cation between the two parts to be cut off
or established at will. The mask part was
placed over my face and I inhaled deeply
once or twice, with the only result that |
was seized with choking cough, which,
however, was soon followed by pleasant
and restful sensation. / felt as if I were
gently doing off on a warm Summers
day, SO I closed my eyes and placed my
arms down by sides that they might not
interfere with my breathing. The doctor
bent over me and raised an eyelid, but l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
The Egg in Texas Politics.
ToXas Siftings

Tbs large, full-grown egg of several
weeks standing has begun to play an i'm
portant role, so to speak, in the Prohi-
bitien campaign nov being waged in
Texas. One of the results is 10 confirm
the idea that while raw eggs are very
effective Ia clearing the voice, they can
also be- used to advantage in clearing a
stage Or platform.
When the Prohibition agitators Under
took to convince the citizens of Alamo
City that, to use the alliterative head lines
of an exchanges: '"White Wheat Whisky
Wastes Wealth, Wrecks Womanhood aud
Wallops Wives" they, the orators, having
on their good clothes, were not struc k
very favorably by the aforesaid audience,
particularly as they were not in possession
OF Bill Nye's recipe for removing egg
stains from their garments.
The bar Of public opinion is the pro
per place to decide the question of prohi-
bit6en, and any resort to n1ldewed eggs,
or similar diatribes, is to be deprecated.
When a man raises his arm TO deliver
such an aromatic testimonial as an egg
on which henha deliberated in vain
for several weeks, that motion is Out of
order.
Those WAC object to prohibition
speeches should adopt some more FEAST
BILE plan of revenge. They might, for in
stance, follow the tactics that are in
vogue in Iowa. Under the guise Of a
mplimentary serenading the DIRECTORS
hire brass band to toot under the win
dow Of the victim for hours, and no
words can desbribe what he suffers.
There are more ways of killing dog
than choking him to death with butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
The June Crop Report.
Washington Critic.

The June returns Of the department Of
agriculture indicates a reduction CT near
IL per cent. in the area Of winter wheat.
Changes in the acreage OF states are very
slight, except in Kansas, where reduc-
ton of % per cent is reported, caused by
bad harvests and low prices. The spring
wheat area has been enlarged 8 per cent.
from immigration and farm-making
west of the Mississippi in the districts
traversed by the Northern Pacific rail
road. Most of the increase is in Dakota,
which reports an increment of "a per
cent. The total area of wheat is about
81, 000,0 00 acres, a fraction of 1 per
cent. more than that of the previous
crop.
In the condition Of winter wheat there
is no marked change, the average being
$40, a reduction of g of 1 per cent. In
1885, the June average was 1921. Reports
of June straw are very numerous. In
some districts there are indications that
the yield of grain will be larger proper
tionally than of straw. If there is no in
crease from this cause, the yield must be
less than an average. The harvest is
already I'D progress IN to the thirty eighth
degree of north latitude.
The condition of spring wheat is good
in Dakota, and territories westward. but
below the average in Wisconsin, Mimi
esota, Iowa and Nebraska. The general
av erage for spring wheat is S7.3, lower
than in recent years, but Is points higher
than in 1881. At harvesting last year
condition averaged so.
Dry westher in April has been MUIR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
FAITH DIDN'T CURE HER.
Terrible Sufferings of a Kansas City Lady in
the Hands of Christian Scientists
Kansas City Paper.

Kansas City Paper.
The death of Mrs. Hannah Updike,
from dropsy and gangrene, while in the
hands and under the care of believers in
the Christian science, or faith cure, Is ex-
citing no end of comment in this city.
Mrs. Updike was the wife of well-known
stockman of Topeka, and was brought
here and placed under the care of the
faith healers eight days ago, at her own
request. She was suffering from dropsy
and gangrene. The doctors had pro
nounced her case incurable. Before death
gangrene had spread over an entire limb.
From the time she was given up to the
care Of the faith healers all medicines,
even opiates, were stopped. She was con-
stantIy surrounded by a half-dozen or
more believers, who in the midst of the
terrible agonies urged her to believe and
she would certainly be cured. At mid
night, Mrs. Eunice Behan, one of the
party, stood over her and declared that
''disease must succumb to the fat of the
mind" At 15:45 Mrs. Updike was dead,
and Mrs. Houston, the nurse Of the heal
ers, brushed back the hair from her cold
forehead, and said, sadly, "She surren-
dered hope to fear"
few hours before her death her agony
was so great that her husband, against the
protests of the others present, gave her
an opiate. eve told him not to do it,"
said one of the attendants. sit was
reco gnizing the power of fear over the
mind, It also dulled the mind, and pre-
vented it from rebelling with all Its pow
er against the results oflatent fear, which
we hold is made manifest on the body in
different forms of disease"
"Did you know she was dying?" re-
| porter asked.
'The mind can rise above all emergen-
cies," was the only response,
AS an excuse for not summoning a
physician to at least relieve the intense
pain of her dying hours one of the heal
els said; "Mrs. Updike became true
believer in the cure of Christian science
We are censured for not calling in physi
clan, had we done SO 1t would have been {
recognition of the fact that some material
injury existed. This would have spoiled
the Christian science cure"
Ia speaking Of the case DR.. Ellsto1
sa;ds II consider that criminal ignorance
was displayed Ia the treatment of thtt
case. The law, however, has nc provisio,
for Furnishing ignorance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
Why She gYouldn,t Marry Then.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: She was an
extremely pretty girl, even for a st.
Gaulite, and her name-weN, society has
ssgot Il on the fist'' She was trying On
the three stony land basement hats now In
vogue and chatting with friend wko
happened in the milliner's at the same
time. 'Dear," said the friend, II Thought
you were to heemarried this June.'' swell
was to have been; but, you see, Harris SO
absmnibly short, and we look absurd to-
gether with all my swell hats. So | just
told him that loved him as much as
ever, but he really must wait till lower
hats come IN. Yes, he was very IN
reasonable, but I was firm. told him
was really very sorry, but there would be
sure to be reaction against the high hats
by next SPRING. way, willy niily, L
wouldn't marry hin till they went OUT
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28

was wide enough awake to say. 'SNot yet,
doctor" [ was rapidly going, though,
and felt was beginning to lose conscious
ness. The light seemed gently to fade
away, giving place to darkness that
was not awful or horrible, but soft and
restful. There was no gidGiness or sing
ins in the ears, but silence and darkness
settled down over me, and then q red veil
seemed to come from between my eyes
and to float away into the increasing
gloom, gradually diminished to red spot
the only speck of light left. Slowly this
faded away, and sight, hearing, volition,
and every sense with it. | had a dim con-
sciousness of existence, but my very life
seemed far away, buried under masses of
soft darkness. 1 do not know whether /
spoke, but my brain was q blank. and not
a thought crossed my mind. All was
numb, dead and still, the silence of the
grave, but with a faint, indefnable con-
| seriousness somewhere that this was not
death, but only the suspension of life.
Darkness was all around; not darkness
that might he felt but one that filled
every thing, covered every thing and blot
ted out everything with black, impalpa-
BILE and all pervading presence.
! Gradually and softly as it went the
! light came back again, with no startled
wonder as to where 1 was, for almost be-
fore could shape thought 1 instinct
lively remembered my position, and knew
that the operation was over. The figures
IN tho room grew distinct and clear. |
half rose up In bed, and then horrid
feeling of nausea and pain rushed upon
me. l had lain down strong and well; |
woke up weak and throbbing with pain
under my bandages, and with sickness
such as had believed could only be pro-
duced in Attorney Race on board a cattle
boat.
Splendid" cried the surgeon, cheer,
fully, "all over, first rate!' and he turned
down his shirt sleeves after tossing away
the towel with which he had dried his
hands. My first thought was to ask the
time. "Not much more than quarter OF
an hour ever it," was the reply; Il dare
say you'll go to sleep now; goodbye"
During my trance they had cut me and
carved me. sewed me up and bandaged me
without my even knowing that had been
touched, but could hardly feel grateful
to the an@sthetic, for the nausea it pro
duced was so intense. My mouth, throat
and lungs felt coated with ether and drieC
with smoke, and [ could we'll imagine
what the mouth of photographers ho.
! would be like after prolonged debaucl
! on brown-p paper cigars, soaked in collod
d. ion. Still, the ether had saved me from
] much suffering, and what was of NOR
8 Importance, had prevented the skill o
| the operator being baked by any finch
$ ing. Everything had been done swiftly
q skillfully and with no fear of the patien
c wircing or wing. The knife is sur
Y and sharp nowadays, and does not bungl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-28
A LIFE SHORTEN ED.
How e Christian Scientist Treated aH Aged
W0naSn.

How e Christian Scientist Tres6ed .aa Aged
Wonaan.
A physician writes TO the Bostea Tran
script as follows: Very little active op-
position is made by the regular medical
profession to the various decisions con
cerning the healing art which sr1se frGm
time to time. QGackery and delusions
die of their Cwu werthlessness, but active
opposition is the soil on which they best
flourish.
Many people of good sense, I regret to
say are, at the present time tolerating
and even encouraging such ~delusiogs I'M
der the names of Christian science, faith
cure, and the like, thinking probably that
at the worst they Sc no harm. ] make
this protest because Of the agony and
death which 8 so-oaAled Christian science
practitioner has brought to an eyed wo-
mCn.
For months she had been eslowed to
suffer, aud her life had been shortened by
weeks, and perhaps By months. Less
than three months ago I was asked TO see
this poor wemar, who had beeneander the
care of q Christian scientist for more
than six months. L found her in a very
feeble condition. hardly able 80 get out
of bed alone, and blanched from the con
tinued loss of blood. She was told, how,
evsr, that nothing wes the matter, aad
that she mast act after such belief.
On examination L found that she was
suffering from cancer, which had been
allowed to advance SO far that it was i'm
possible to remove it by operation.
Much. however, could be done to relieve
the intense pain and check the loss of
blood. The scientist" had full control,
and, notwithstanding the patients pro-
testations of weakness and pain, she was
told to forget it and urged into the
street. The patient was not allowed to
use ordinary means of relieving pain,
such as hot cloths, because Sin reality
there was no PAIN
Now, what was needed was most abso-
Lutte quiet. AS the result of her efforts to
be about there we've frequent and very
profuse hemorrhages. The patient was
told that she was getting better. A few
days before her Death, after dragging
herself down three flights OF stairs and
into the street, a hemorrhage began,
which lasted all night. Being alone, and
having used every other available article,
she was obliged to tear up G blanket in
her endeavor to stop the few of blood,
In the morning she was again told that it
was Of no account, and that sac disease
was passing from her. When the patient,
with some doubt liz her mind, referred to
the torn blanket, she was told that it
merely showed how strong she was. Her
faith in this mode of treatment at last
gave way. A bed IL one of the hospitals
of the city was procured for her, but she
died on the following day before she
could be removed to it.